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Paint Matching From Color Rite?

4 posts Started 17 May 2007 Last recovered post 19 May 2007 Wayback Machine snapshot 11 Jan 2008

#1
I'm gonna have some downtime after a little spill on my '06 Pearl White VFR800. I was planning on spending some of it cleaning up and repairing my front and left side fairings. I noticed Color Rite has an exact match top and base paint for my bike and wanted to know if anyone can vouch for it before I ordered it. This will be my first time repairing anything like this, so I'm not expecting it to look like new, but I'd like to get as close as possible as far as the color is concerned. Any other tips would also be appreciated.
#2
I haven't tried the white, but I did use some of another color on another bike I purchased. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't nearly as good as I was hoping for it to be. But since the bike is white, I doubt there would be too many problems.
#3
Had heard (read) on this site that color rite was refered to as color wrong.
Ignored the hint and ordered the touch up pencil and clear coat.
Metal dispersion (2005 Silver) in the touchup pen was great in fact
much better than I expected. Problem was that the color was several
shades too dark. Not much help when I phoned them either and Oh
by the way if you're ordering from Canada the order is shipped from
Quebec and the entire invoice is in French. Perhaps something was lost in
translation, btw the code on the pencil was the same as on the frame.

Good Luck
#4
That's eery, had the exact same issue, the 2005 silver touch up pen is def too dark, and when I tried talking to them, all I got was French. Needless to say, lesson learned re Color Wrong!!. BTW, did you find a match for the 2005 then. I spoke to my autobody guy who told me to bring in the delron codes that someone here posted, and he would try to make up some, maybe we can share if it works?
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